In this episode, the host Sera Bonds, shares her love of stories and her thoughts on why stories matter. She considers the ways in which we are not our stories and what we can do to become more active authors in our own stories.

⁠Waking Giants :we are not our stories" playlist⁠

⁠M/Egan Garr⁠, poet + friend of the pod who reads her piece "Our stories cannot take us back but love" from Amsterdam for us in this week's episode.

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